Police TV series, a fixture of the small screen since its inception, have morphed from binary tales of cops and robbers to challenging and morally nebulous psychodramas. While each generation favours the ones it grew up with, Graeme Ross reckons he has nailed down the best of all time
The end of great stagnations
What’s the next four years going to look like under a Trump Administration? President Elect Trump will bring big changes to foreign policy but we're still unsure what that will look like. Find out more about Foreign Policy and other topics with Cato Institute’s new series “The Next Four Years.” Produced by Cory Cooper and Tess Terrible
This week marks the 29th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone, how much of scientific success is due to luck, and what farming changed about dogs and us—with Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Katelyn Gostic of the University of California, Los Angeles, about how the first flu you came down with—which depends on your birth year—may help predict your susceptibility to new flu strains down the road. Listen to previous podcasts. Читать дальше...
Pips from famed tree in Newton's birthplace are part of the world's first ever science-centre day
Does a pending Trump presidency present opportunities to deregulate financial markets? Thaya Brook Knight comments.
Your RSVP is no longer in doubt – say yes to everything
Daydream View, the first mobile headset of Google's new virtual-reality platform, is rock-solid VR at low cost.
At Mayor Ed Lee and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fete, some 150 trendy politicos held their drinks and stared — shocked and slack-jawed — as the televisions played out the Donald Trump victory. [...] it will be the local issues that will have a greater effect on your life. [...] of what they may say now, there were those in the mayor’s office who thought it was possible that Lee could get a post in Hillary Clinton’s Cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [...] they supported Wiener, a moderate. Читать дальше...
In this week's news, we highlight the Top 5 men's seasons in Open Era history.
CONVENTIONAL wisdom gets turned on its head quickly in the financial markets. Although many on Wall Street were gloomy about the prospects under a Trump presidency, the markets have performed a sharp U-turn after the overnight decline on election day.
A WIRED exclusive look at how Facebook will beam the internet with Aquila, a stratospheric solar-powered drone equipped with millimeter wave communications technology.
Two sonic branding experts explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable sounds.
From Galashiels to Orkney, new and innovative breweries are popping up all over the country
In the crosshairs again
The rand recovered slightly on Thursday morning as riskier assets stabilised in the wake of Donald Trump’s election upset.
Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city". I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.
Oil prices reversed some early losses to push higher on Thursday as markets recovered from Donald Trump’s shock poll victory.
President-elect Trump will inherit all of the expansions of executive power given to him by his predecessors, most notably Barack Obama. Gene Healy says the one-time "thought experiment" is now a reality.
Donald Trump’s presidency is tantamount to sailing into unchartered waters, hence the search for asset classes viewed as safe havens.
I have compiled most of the pictures from the pages I published on the 2004 trip down the AICW into a YouTube video. A link to that video has been added to the Overview page on the trip.
Gone are the doe-eyed covers, the forlorn infants and the commodifiable mascots.